Neuroscience

Neuroscience

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    1. Neuroscience

    Growth in early infancy drives optimal brain functional connectivity which predicts cognitive flexibility in later childhood

    Chiara Bulgarelli, Anna Blasi ... BRIGHT Study Team
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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Distinct evolutionary trajectories of two integration centres, the central complex and mushroom bodies, across Heliconiini butterflies

    Max S Farnworth, Yi Peng Toh ... Stephen H Montgomery
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    1. Neuroscience

    Disrupted Hippocampal Theta-Gamma Coupling and Spike-Field Coherence Following Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury

    Christopher D Adam, Ehsan Mirzakhalili ... John A Wolf
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    1. Neuroscience

    Sexual dimorphism in sensorimotor transformation of optic flow

    Sarah Nicholas, Katja Sporar Klinge ... Karin Nordström
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    1. Neuroscience

    Autonomic reflex plasticity associates with time-dependent SUDEP susceptibility in a murine model with hyperactive stress circuits

    Sandy E Saunders, Kaylie E Dow ... Carie R Boychuk
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    1. Neuroscience

    Developmental oligodendrocytes regulate brain function through the mediation of synchronized spontaneous activity

    Ryo Masumura, Kyosuke Goda ... Naofumi Uesaka
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    1. Neuroscience
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Parallel Wires: A Conserved Principle of Contralateral-Ipsilateral Segregation in the Visual Corpus Callosum

    Jiaowen Wang, Yanming Wang ... Xiaoxiao Wang
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    1. Neuroscience

    Subregional activity in the dentate gyrus is amplified during elevated cognitive demands

    Charlotte CM Castillon, Shintaro Otsuka ... Anis Contractor
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    1. Neuroscience

    Neurotransmitters: The sound of neural silence

    Nikki Tjahjono, Yu-Shun Wang, Lin Tian
    A new fluorescent sensor makes it possible to track the neurotransmitter GABA in freely moving animals.
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    1. Neuroscience

    On-demand seizures facilitate rapid screening of therapeutics for epilepsy

    Yuzhang Chen, Brian Litt ... Hajime Takano
    An on-demand seizure model in chronically epileptic mice integrates reliability and etiological relevance, providing a mechanistically grounded, efficient platform for evaluating pharmacological interventions.
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Highlights

    1. Neuroscience

    Testing 'next-word prediction'

    Richard J Antonello
    1. Neuroscience

    Hidden folds reveal brain organization

    Jürgen Germann
    1. Neuroscience

    Cocaine disrupts "hidden states" in the brain

    Margo Le, Ronald Keiflin

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    University of Oxford / University College London, United Kingdom
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